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With the closure of Google Answers, Yahoo! has taken the opportunity to welcome all Google Answers Researchers.
They have even set up a group for these persons along with an invitation to meet them at their Sunnyvale campus on Wednesday, December 13.
Yahoo! sure is going to all lengths to make good on what I believe is [...]

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In a letter to the Hula Newsgroup, Novell’s Peter Teichman has stated that Novell will no longer be supporting the Hula Project.
Hula is a mail and calendar server with a friendly web-interface designed for a great user experience.
This is indeed a major hit for the Open Source project started by Novell a few months back.
Novell [...]

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Corel said that beginning mid 2007, WordPerfect will support both Open Document Format (ODF) and Open XML.
ODF is supported by OpenOffice.org while Open XML is the new document format supported by Microsoft Office 2007.
Richard Carriere, Corel’s general manager of office productivity, told Linux-Watch “Unfortunately, it is too early to disclose the details of the next [...]

Posted by Ajay under Office, Software, Tech News
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Apple today release an update that patches 31 flaws in different versions of Mac OS X operating systems.
You can update your OS by using the Software Update or from Apple Downloads.

The main flaw that was fixed is a problem with the built-in wireless cards on certain Mac systems. A hacker can install malicious software on [...]

Posted by Ajay under Apple, Mac, Operating Systems, Tech News
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Opera has launched Opera Mini which is a browser for your mobile phone.
Opera has always been one of my favorite web browsers because of it is fast, light on resources and does the job well.
I don’t surf the internet on my mobile phone, but for users who do Opera Mini is indeed a blessing.
The new [...]

Posted by Ajay under Browsers, Mobile, Opera, Tech News
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After four years, Google has finally put an end to Google Answers.
The site isn’t shut down but they will stop accepting any more questions from this week.
No reasons for this have been given, except that it was an experiment.
Google Answers used to charge $2.50 to answer your question. You can still search through the [...]

Posted by Ajay under Google, Tech News
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The WII was released on Nov. 19 and just eight days later ITWorld reports that over 600,000 units have been sold.
This indeed spells great success for Nintendo. This averages 75,000 units a day which is well above the number of PS3s sold at the time of the release in Japan.
The Wii costs $249.99. It was [...]

Posted by Ajay under Gaming
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Starting December, Verizon Wireless will deliver selected video clips from YouTube to cell phones, reports Reuters.
This is in a bid to increase subscriptions to its mobile media service.
YouTube, was bought by Google Inc. this month. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed.
Currently, the number of users with video support on their cellphones is still [...]

Posted by Ajay under Google, Mobile, Tech News
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Computeractive has come up with a special offer which expires on December 13.
They are giving the full commercial version of Ashampoo Burning Studio 2007, a fully featured program for creating audio and data CDs and DVDs.
After downloading, you can register the program online and receive your serial.
No technical support is offered by either Computeractive, the [...]

Posted by Ajay under Software
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We have always known Windows to be spyware prone. However, one thing that was considered to be without spyware is the Mac.
Well, until F-Secure received a proof-of-concept sample of an adware program for Mac OS X.
The program doesn’t require administrator rights and it can be silently installed without user intervention.
“This is easier to do than [...]

Posted by Ajay under Mac, Security, Tech News
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